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Ezekiel 44:19

in Ezekiel 44

When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.

KJV

And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

This verse in Ezekiel 44

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They must not go among the people with their holy garments on, lest they should imagine themselves sanctified by the touch of them; or, They shall sanctify the people, that is (as it is explained, ch. xlii. 14 ), they shall approach to those things which are for the people, in their ordinary garments.

This site's exposition

they are to wear linen garments

on Ezekiel 44:17-19

The priests who minister in the inner court wear linen, with no wool or anything “that makes them perspire.” Before going out to the people they leave their garments “in the holy chambers.” The aim is “so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.”

This site's exposition

so that they do not transmit holiness to the people

Matthew Henry gives two readings: the people might think themselves made holy by touching the garments. Or the phrase means the priests approach the people's things in ordinary clothes, as in 42:14. Haggai 2:12 puts a related question to the priests about holy meat carried in a garment.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verses 17 onwards) And when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments (or robes); they shall not wear anything made of wool (or they shall not wear garments made of wool) when they minister at the gates of the inner court and inside. Linen turbans shall be on their heads (or they shall have linen turbans on their heads) and linen undergarments shall be around their waists, and they shall not be bound in sweat (or forced).

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And when they go forth into the utter court,....

The words behind it

28 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּ֠בְצֵאתָםand when go out they

    uvetzetomH3318 →1067 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הֶחָצֵ֨רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • הַחִיצוֹנָ֜ה<the> outer

    hachitzonahH2435 →25 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הֶחָצֵ֣רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • הַחִיצוֹנָה֮<the> outer

    hachitzonahH2435 →25 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָעָם֒the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • יִפְשְׁט֣וּthey will take off

    yifshetuH6584 →43 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בִּגְדֵיהֶ֗םclothes their

    bigdeihemH899 →217 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הֵ֙מָּה֙they

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • מְשָׁרְתִ֣ם[were] serving

    mesharetimH8334 →97 times

  • בָּ֔םin them

    bam

  • וְהִנִּ֥יחוּand they will set down

    vehinichuH5117 →142 times

  • אוֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • בְּלִֽשְׁכֹ֣תin [the] rooms of

    belishkhotH3957 →47 times

  • הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ<the> holiness

    hakodeshH6944 →469 times

  • וְלָֽבְשׁוּ֙and they will put on

    velaveshuH3847 →110 times

  • בְּגָדִ֣יםclothes

    begadimH899 →217 times

  • אֲחֵרִ֔יםother

    ʾacherimH312 →166 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יְקַדְּשׁ֥וּthey will consecrate

    yekadeshuH6942 →171 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • בְּבִגְדֵיהֶֽם׃by clothes their

    bevigdeihemH899 →217 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 30:29

    You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 6:18

      Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the offerings made by fire to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 29:37

      For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Matthew 23:17

      You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Exodus 29:37

    For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 23:19

      You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 40:10

      Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 46:20

    and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 35:13

      They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.

    • Leviticus 2:4–7

      Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

    • Ezekiel 44:29

      They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

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About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.